"A concise theoretical and scholarly analysis of concepts such as democracy, interest groups, common good, consociational democracy, corporatism and pluralism. Specifically, it examines the European Union (EU) system and the workings of democratic principles in that system via various theoretical tools, revealing the consociational system as one of the most important features of the EU system and the democratic deficit as one of its most serious problems. . . . The book will be attractive to scholars and students of European Studies in particular and political science in general."
— Ahmet Arabaci, Political Studies Review